Learning Area: Technology

Coordinator: Miss Tinta, you may via e-mail

What Is Technology?

Technology is the use of knowledge, skills and resources to meet human needs and wants and to recognize and solve problems by investigating, designing, making, evaluating and communicating products, processes and systems by taking social environmental factors into consideration.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply technological process and skills ethically and responsibly using appropriate information and communication technologies
  2. Understand and apply relevant technological knowledge ethically and responsibly
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationship between science, technology, society and the environment: indigenous technology, impacts of technology and biases created by technology

Topics Covered

Processing
Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of how materials can be processed to change or improve their properties by adapting them to suit particular purposes.
Structures
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of different types of structures (frame, shell and solid structures); reinforcing techniques and how structures can be made strong.
Systems and Controls: Electricity and Electronics
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how electrical circuits with more than one input or control device will work.
Systems and Controls: Mechanisms
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how mechanical systems (hydraulic, pneumatic systems, gears, belt drive systems, pulley systems and linked lever systems) convert motion and force to give mechanical advantage and represents them using diagrams.

Indigenous Technology

Compares how different cultures have solved similar problems and relates the differences to the culture and values of their societies.

Impact of Technology

Expresses and details opinions about positive and negative impacts of products of technology on the quality of people’s lives and the environment in which they live.

Bias in Technology

Provides evidence that details opinions, backed up by factual evidence, about the effect of technological solutions on human rights issues.

School Based Assessment/CASS